A teenage boy who had been shot by his grandmother pleaded with a
911 dispatcher to send help as the 75-year-old shot him again, a
prosecutor told jurors on Tuesday.

Sandra Layne is on trial for the first-degree murder of her grandson Jonathan Hoffman, 17, whom she is accused of shooting dead on May 18 last year at their shared home in suburban Detroit.

Hoffman 'thought he was safe... Sandra Layne walks up and
shoots him again. This time in the stomach,' Paul Walton, Oakland
County's chief assistant prosecutor, said during his opening statement today.

On trial: Sandra Layne smiles at her family while entering the court room of Oakland Circuit Court on Tuesday. She is charged with murdering her grandson, Jonathan Hoffman, 17 (right)

In chains: The petite 75-year-old had her handcuffs removed by a sheriff as proceedings got under way last week

Defense attorney Jerome
Sabbota countered that the diminutive Layne feared for her safety during
the fatal confrontation in the West Bloomfield Township
condo that Hoffman shared with his grandparents.

An autopsy revealed
Hoffman was shot three times in the chest, once in the abdomen and once
in his left arm. Tests showed the teen had traces of synthetic marijuana
in his body.

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Officers had been called to the home northwest of
Detroit about two months earlier, when Layne told police she was having a
difficult time because her grandson was very upset and yelling. No
arrests were made that day.

Four days before that, the alternative high school senior was
pulled over in nearby Farmington Hills and ticketed for possession of
marijuana and drug paraphernalia.

Tears: Defendant Sandra Layne breaks down crying during the playing of the 911 call made by her grandson Jonathan Hoffman at a hearing last July

Distraught: The elderly woman, pictured at an earlier hearing, was said to have been afraid of her grandson

He later received a 93-day suspended
sentence and was placed on 12 months' probation.